Bridle-blinder



(No Model.)

N. WOOLSTON.

BRIDLE BLINDBR.

Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

WITNESSES V WVLWTOR UNITED STATES PATENT tribe.

ABRAHAM N. YVOOLSTON, OF STATE CENTRE, IOW A.

BRlDLE-BLINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,762, dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed August 27, 1887. Serial No. 248,056. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM N. WooL- STON, a citizen of the United States, residing at State Centre, in the county of Marshall and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blinkers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in blinkers; and it consists in the novel construc tion ofa metal bracing-plate that is interposed between the outer and inner layers of leather of the blinker and secured by its doubled edge to the check-strap of the bridle, all as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of my device. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View of the blinker. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the metal plate, which is dished at a, and is cut or stamped out in the usual curved shape to conform to the shape of a blinker. This plate is constructed at its rear portion with a double thickness, caused by bending or folding the extreme rear end thereof back against the main portion, thus providing a strengtheningrib, b, for the plate,

and which is perforated at c, which latter also extends through the plate aforesaid.

The plate A is bent at an angle to the vertical rear strip or rib, and the same is interposed between the inner and outer pieces of leather which form the blinker, as at d d, and is socured therein by stitching the leather together, as shown in the drawings.

The blinker, with its bracing-plate, is scoured to the cheek-strap e by rivets, bolts, or screws, as may be preferred.

It will be seen that I provide a plate for the blinker which is doubled upon itself atthe end where it enters the cheek-strap, thus keeping-said blink'er at the proper angle from the animals eye and preventing it from flapping over the animals eye, as well as holding the same in a fixed position, and it is durable and cheap to manufacture.

What I claim is In a blinker provided with a metal plate, the plate A, constructed with double thick ness where it is attached to the cheek-strap formed by bending the rear end of said plate forward upon the main portion and perforating the double thickness to receive the rivets, as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my sign aturc in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM N. \VOOLSTON.

Witnesses:

F. A. WVooLsToN, CHAS. GOEPPINGER. 

